It does not appear, at least at this stage, that Klein’s injury is too serious. He won’t play Thursday against Columbus, but he’s remaining with the team – as opposed to returning to Nashville for further evaluation. Preds coach Barry Trotz isn’t ruling him out of Saturday’s game at this point.

The Erat issue is a little fuzzier. Erat was limping noticeably today here in Columbus, and he’s headed back to Nashville this evening for further reevaluation on Thursday. Doctors will be looking for things like torn ligaments, which would obviously be a worst-case scenario. At this point, however, Trotz is holding out hope that the injury isn’t too severe. Erat will almost certainly miss at least the next couple of games, but we’ll have to wait until tomorrow to find out more.

Trotz said Mike Santorelli has been playing some wing in Milwaukee, so he may plug Santorelli directly into Erat’s spot in the lineup. Another option is moving Nick Spaling to wing and plugging Santorelli in at one of the center positions.

I’ll try to update this later with Trotz’s actual comments, but I have to transcribe a lot of taped interviews first.